Constantinople in 1828, a Residence of Sixteen Months in the Turkish Capital and Provinces, by Charles MacFarlane (London, 1829). The download contains volumes one and two of this two-volume set, in 1050 searchable and bookmarked pdf pages. This is the second printing, and includes a lengthy Appendix (in 184 pages) at the end of volume two wherein the author treats topics he was unable to include in the first printing. The Appendix by itself is a precious historical document. Charles MacFarlane (1799–1858) was a Scottish writer of historical and fictional works, who travelled to Turkey in 1827 and lived in Constantinople for a year. A Wikipedia entry (Charles MacFarlane) describes his life and works. This is an important source for the study of the Ottoman Empire, and especially its Christian subjects, in the late 1820s. Books digitized by Google and compiled by Robert Bedrosian.

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